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To: DownSouth who wrote (5628)	12/13/2000 2:09:27 AM
From: chmang	Respond to of 10934

Hi DS, this seems a very high price in terms of $/GB. The consultant to whom I made the remark told me that it was more of a server solution than plain storage (?). And 300 gb are the present application data, not the size of offered storage. So I need to know more details about the real hardware which is involved. For small boxes EMC symmetrix sells over here around 250-300 $/gb. So I expected these prices to be much under that. I'll try to know more...The only thing which was of interest for me as a NTAP owner was that the EMC pricing was reasonably aggressive. Charles

To: DownSouth who wrote (5628)	12/14/2000 9:54:47 AM
From: chmang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

"chmang, I question the validity of your report $175K for 300GB sounds very high. " I just received an excel file with comparative offers . The price for 300 gb is very high because it includes the IP4700 and F560 base cabinets, mem and FC connections which can support up to 6 Tb or 7 Tb. In the same offer , the price for Additional 700 gb is : 70,000 $ for EMC 33,000 $ for NETAP so for 1 Tb the price is: EMC 192,000 $ (cheaper than symmetrix) NETAP 208,000 $ And this will go down in the next few days of course Charles